Current Affairs 2016

Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvette INS Kadmatt has been commission in the Indian Navy by Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral R K Dhowan at naval dockyard in Visakhapatnam.

India�s first River Information System (RIS) was launched by Union Government facilitate safe and accurate inland waterway navigation.

Union Government has decided to merge Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).

• Amitabh Kant to take over as NITI Aayog CEO.
• ICICI Bank to partner FINO PayTech for payments bank.
• J&K Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed passed away.

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed Amitabh Kant as the chief executive officer of NITI Aayog. The appointment will take effect after Mr.Kant retires from service in March.

�Show me the man and I will show you the rule,� BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha is quoted as saying in the context of politics within the party in his biography �Anything But Khamosh,� released.

ICICI Bank will partner FINO PayTech to foray into the payments bank space.

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Union Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has decided to implement the stricter emission norms of Bharat Stage (BS) VI from 1st April 2020 in a bid to curb vehicular pollution.

The British writer, Kate Atkinson has won the 2015 Costa novel award for her novel God in Ruins, the companion her previous novel to Life After Life.

Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mufti Mohammad Sayeed passed away of multiple organ failure in New Delhi after nearly a week-long hospitalisation. He was 79.

• Cabinet approves conversion of MUDRA into SIDBI bank.
• Union Cabinet gives nod to MoU with Bangladesh for operation of traditional haats.
• Kerala adopts Lt. Col. Niranjanâ��s family.